Sentence examples for staged strikes from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, thousands of truckers have also staged strikes, threatening supplies of fuel and food.

Thousands of workers staged strikes and marches in support of Powell's views.

Students at more than 400 colleges staged strikes and demonstrations in response to the Kent State shootings.

Meanwhile, communist groups and radical members of the Federation of University Students, a noncommunist organization, staged strikes and attacks in urban areas.

This week, thousands of supporters of 13 opposition parties staged strikes and protests across the country in coordinated campaigns against rising prices.

But global coffee prices have been plummeting since 2001, and farmers have staged strikes this year demanding extended subsidies and other forms of economic relief.

Unions have been staging strikes in opposition to the plan.

Teachers have vowed to stage strikes in schools that decide to impose heightened monitoring of the profession.

Firefighters in England and Wales are to stage strikes over eight days in August in their long-running dispute over pensions, a spokesman for the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said.

The unions are barred by law from staging strikes or work stoppages, and under state law, their leaders cannot even call for such activity.

In an unrelated move, university students also are staging strikes, protesting, paradoxically, a new law that gives underfinanced state universities more autonomy and some private financing.